Microsoft Purview Compliance Portal: Information Protection-Email Attachment Preview in Content Explorer
🚨 The Signal: Admins can now preview email attachments within Purview Content Explorer. This enhances data visibility for compliance investigations, allowing security teams to directly assess sensitive information in email attachments without exporting.
The Impact
Security and compliance teams are affected by improved visibility into email attachments, reducing data handling risks during investigations.
- Security Teams: Reduced risk of data exposure when investigating email attachments, as content can be viewed in-portal.
- Compliance Teams: Enhanced ability to identify and classify sensitive information within email attachments, improving regulatory adherence.
- Privacy Officers: Better oversight of data access during investigations, as content is viewed within Purview, not exported.
- Legal Teams: Streamlined eDiscovery processes by providing direct access to email attachment content within the compliance portal.
The Action
- Review existing Purview Content Explorer access policies to ensure only authorised personnel can view email attachments.
- Communicate the new attachment preview capability to security and compliance teams for improved investigation workflows.
- Update incident response playbooks to leverage in-portal attachment preview for data exfiltration or sensitive data exposure incidents.
- Verify audit logging is enabled for Content Explorer activities to track who views email attachments.
Domain: Purview · Impact: medium · Workload: Microsoft Purview